Abstract:
In this thesis, alpha-induced reactions on Cadmium for various energy of alpha have been
studied. Excitation function for four reactions of the type 106 48 Cd(α, n)109 50 Sn, 108 48 Cd(α, n)111 50 Sn,
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48 Cd(α,2n)116 50 Sn, and 114 48 Cd(α,3n)115 50 Sn in the incident alpha energy range from 10MeV up
to 60MeV were studied. Theoretical calculations have been carried out by using COMPLET
code including both compound nucleus as well as pre-compound. The theoretical results are
compared with the experimental excitation functions obtained from the EXFOR data source,
IAEA. The study shows that high energy parts of excitation functions are dominated by the
pre-equilibrium reaction mechanism whereas the low energy parts are dominated by the compound nucleus reaction mechanism.
